Do you tend to ask questions that can’t be answered while sitting down?
Ones that inspire you to get up, open doors and connect your best ideas to the world that lies in wait? Camels do.
Are you curious, resilient, audacious, intrepid?
Creative, insightful and kind?
Camels are known to …
… put learning into action, page 4
Global focus
Four-year career preparation
Alumni impact
… chart their own paths, page 22
One-of-a-kind curriculum
All-hands-on-deck advising
World-class enrichment offerings
in your convictions? And persistently stubborn in pursuit of shared solutions?
Put Learning into Action
We curate and create. We remake the world, one steady step at a time.
(It’s how you know we’re Camels.)
We’re here because we almost weren’t— a college conceived to right a wrong, to inspire an alternative, to light a better path forward.
Chartered in 1911 in response to a local university’s decision to close its doors to women, Conn has consistently championed justice and action for the
good of the world.
IT’S COMPLICATED. IT’S MESSY. IT’S OUR SHARED RESPONSIBILITY.
The shape of the future (yours, and that of the world) hinges on your ability to hold (and lead) conversations with others, listen respectfully and find common ground.
When we’re able to speak each other’s languages (metaphorically and literally), we’re able to access a wider range of perspectives, reach smarter solutions and inch closer to a just world.
As it turns out, our greatest strength lies in the scope of our differences.
From a landmark intercultural dialogue program to a research center focused on race and ethnicity to coursework examining inequity, power and difference, Conn students grapple with issues of social justice on many fronts. (Learn
As it does, your reach keeps growing, day by day.
From social innovations to community action, change begins and history is made at the grassroots level.
Conn students lend their unique voices, willing hands and restless feet to a multitude of big ideas that each unfold with a single, purposeful step.
Tapping the programs and resources of the Otto and Fran Walter Commons for Global Study and Engagement, YOU’LL ADVANCE GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP AND INTERCULTURAL EXCHANGE BY:
Creating or joining research or partnerships with communities around the world (including the one that’s just across the street)
Building intercultural awareness through courses that connect you with distant communities (using our Global Learning Lab)
Adding context to your academic studies by traveling, living and studying in another part of the world (choosing from 80 programs in approximately 40 countries)
Exploring one or more world languages (For a list of the 12 we offer, see the bottom right corner of page 55.)
You’ll start with a question and proceed with your hands and feet, exiting the classroom and heading out into the world.
Internships that help you build your resume while mapping passions to professions.
Research and Scholarship that carve pathways into the previously unimagined.
We imagine and enact. We dream and deploy.
Because ideas should never be islands. Because concepts gain meaning in context. Because the world’s big problems aren’t going to solve themselves.
that address inequity and promote equality on campus and throughout the world.
that upend assumptions and defy boundaries.
For examples of each of these ways (and many others) that Conn students channel learning into action, turn to page 54.
Don’t look now, but here comes life, with its endless surprises and varied demands. We want you to be ready. In fact, we insist.
Which is why all Conn students can complete a comprehensive career track that runs in steady parallel to the life of the mind.
Guided by your career adviser, you’ll build a personalized professional development plan—exploring opportunities that relate to your interests and pressurechecking potential career paths through internships, job shadowing, professional development courses and other activities that equip you with the fundamentals of postgraduate success.
You won’t sacrifice a bit of your intellectual journey as you forge the foundations of professional life, magnifying the value of your Conn education by developing the tools and experiences you’ll need to maximize your impact.
WE’RE HERE TO HELP YOU imagine, explore, prepare and transform your bold ideas into meaningful pursuits— from day one until the day you graduate.
PREPARE : SELF-ASSESSMENT
(What excites me? What am I best at? What careers align with my interests and values?)
Get one-on-one guidance from your career adviser
Create a personalized career development plan
ENGAGE: CAREER AND JOB SEARCH PREPARATION (What set of experiences will best prepare me for my chosen path?)
ACTIVATE: LAUNCH YOUR CAREER
(How do I use what I’ve learned for maximum impact?)
Identify opportunities by leveraging your growing professional network
Take a Career Preparation Course (learn the basics of interviewing, networking and professionalism )
Take a Career Informed Learning course (with alumni industry experts)
Use flexible Career Action Funds (up to $3,000) for experiential learning opportunities such as internships or research with a Conn professor
Explore opportunities to build cultural competency by using world languages in professional settings
Do an independent creative or social change project
Identify, apply and interview for jobs
Apply to graduate or professional school
Apply for a fellowship to amplify your expertise and deepen your impact on the world
We put our money where your future is, offering up to $3,000 in flexible Career Action Funds to support your professional development by promoting experiences that build skills and connections while channeling learning into action.
Equipped with knowledge and experience, purpose and a practical plan, Camels are ready for what comes next.
EACH PROUDLY UNIQUE, OUR GRADUATES ARE KNOWN AND VALUED AS:
Purpose-driven individuals— committed to marshaling ideas into action
Engaged global citizens— aware of the world’s challenges and prepared to address them
Expansive thinkers— defying traditional approaches and assumptions in pursuit of creative solutions
Empathetic humans— open-minded, respectful and able to communicate with confidence across differences of culture and perspective
Willing collaborators— inclined to harness the strength of complementary forces
These attributes distinguish Conn alumni as leaders and innovators, prized colleagues, community anchors, and fundamentally decent people.
That’s not a brag, honest! It’s just who our students are: intelligent, motivated scholars making the most of the opportunities they have.
It’s also what we do: provide support early so students can identify scholarships, fellowships and other awards for which to apply, and then assist throughout the application process.
And it’s why we do it: These honors allow our students to build on the education they receive at Conn to become even more experienced and knowledgeable ... and therefore more competitive in graduate school and professional careers.
In recent years, Conn students and graduates have been honored with the fellowships, scholarships, awards and honors found on the next page.
BOREN SCHOLARSHIP
DAAD RISE
DAVIS PROJECTS FOR PEACE
GILMAN INTERNATIONAL SCHOLARSHIP
GOLDWATER SCHOLARSHIP
LEADERSHIP ALLIANCE SUMMER RESEARCH EARLY IDENTIFICATION PROGRAM
PUBLIC POLICY AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS JUNIOR SUMMER INSTITUTE FELLOWSHIP
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE CRITICAL LANGUAGE SCHOLARSHIP
BEINECKE SCHOLARSHIP
FORBES 30 UNDER 30
FULBRIGHT SCHOLARSHIP
GATES CAMBRIDGE SCHOLARSHIP
MARSHALL SCHOLARSHIP
NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION GRADUATE RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP
PICKERING FELLOWSHIP
PUBLIC POLICY AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS SCHOLARSHIP
RANGEL GRADUATE FELLOWSHIP
WATSON FELLOWSHIP
Not only does Conn provide resources to students seeking highly competitive scholarships and awards offered by national and international organizations, we also provide scholarships of our own. Here’s a small sample:
Bessell Fellowship: Funding to support international internships related to the U.N. Global Sustainable Development Goals
ConnSSHARP (Connecticut College Social Sciences, Humanities, Arts, Research Program): Intensive student-faculty summer research in social sciences, humanities and arts
Language Study Grants: Various scholarships that allow students to dive deeper into language study during summer and winter breaks
Minor Myers Research Fellowship: Self-designed research on a topic that reflects a student’s passion and desire to learn outside of the traditional classroom experience
Sharis ’86 & Thorn ’88 Pozen Endowed Fund for Excellence in Journalism, Writing, and Media: Supports first-year and sophomore students exploring potential careers in journalism, writing and media
Summer Science Research Institute: Opportunities for math and science students to conduct full-time research with faculty during the summer intersession Sophomore Summer Research Program: Scholarships for Pathway, Center or Certificate Program students conducting research the summer after their sophomore year
Perhaps you have an idea or a dream?
A pivot or upheaval you hope to set in motion? your
A something or other you want to create, improve, invent or engineer?
Answer the question that drives you. Exceed the goal that inspires you. Cast your shadow upon the world.
Camels make an impact.
How We Do It
We ask bold questions that spark constant connections.
(And that point us to meaningful action.)
A comprehensive sequence of courses, opportunities to learn on the job and one-on-one advising designed to parallel your academic journey.
(See pages 12–15 for more detail)
Five (5!) F.I.V.E. dedicated advisers, each with a different way to help.
Workshops, tutoring and enrichment; the Office of Academic Support helps every Conn student find ways to power up.
Conn’s version of an honors college offers focus, support and funding for targeted exploration of a project of your choosing.
An inquiry-based, experience-enhanced, cross-disciplinary deep dive into a topic of personal interest.
From world language study to broad exploration of modes of inquiry to an emphasis on writing mastery, Connections aims to broaden, deepen, extend and inspire.
THROUGH OUR SIGNATURE ACADEMIC PROGRAM, CONNECTIONS, you’ll pose provocative questions while assembling a personalized portfolio of knowledge and related experience. Carefully guided by mentors and peers, you’ll hone your analytical and creative capacity while building the foundation of your professional life—one that emerges from your genuine interests.
The bottom line: There is a plan with a beginning and an end.
The vast, exciting in-between is up to you.
It’s what makes them so hard to knock down.
EVERY CONN STUDENT HAS AN ADVISING TEAM.
Not an adviser. A team of five separate human individuals, each one dedicated, present and well-informed. (This is how it should be.)
Your team is there for you. To show you the ropes.
To connect you with resources.
To help you map a plan for your studies—and life.
PERSONAL ADVISING TEAM:
Professor (who is also your FirstYear Seminar teacher)
Student (a sophomore who has been carefully selected and extensively trained)
Career Adviser (there to offer guidance from day one)
Staff Member (representing a key campus resource and able to connect you with other resources)
Student (another sophomore there to mentor, guide and drink coffee with you)
YOUR ADVISING TEAM WILL HELP YOU:
Assemble a customized academic experience, drawing on the staggering possibilities of this place.
Build a long-term career plan that relates directly to your studies and deepest interests.
Get you over the hump, if and whenever you need a nudge or a lift (pause here for pun appreciation).
Your best life is a shared endeavor.
Perhaps you could hop across the desert on one foot, but we think you shouldn’t have to.
ANY CONN STUDENT MAY CHOOSE TO PURSUE A “PATHWAY,” a set of interdisciplinary courses organized around a central theme and a cluster of related experiences that unfold across four years of exploration, engagement and discovery.
Thematic Inquiry Kick-off course that introduces the Pathway theme and lets you get to know the others in your cohort.
OR YOU CAN APPLY TO JOIN A CENTER, Conn’s version of the honors college experience. Centers combine interdisciplinary coursework, scholarship, research, internships and community-based learning. They offer a dedicated staff and endowed funding to support student projects.
Big Question
The looming curiosity you are wondering about and/or the point of inquiry to guide exploration (which is likely to evolve as discovery unfolds).
While bolstering your intellectual toolkit, you’ll explore culture and identity, grapple with complexity, and give back to your community—while preparing for your future in ways that reach far beyond what’s written on the syllabus.
Pathways include
• Creativity
• Data, Information and Society
• Entrepreneurship, Social Innovation, Value and Change
• Food
• Global Capitalism
• Media, Rhetoric and Communication
• Peace and Conflict
• Public Health
• Social Justice and Sustainability
Pathway Courses
Three foundational courses (related to the topic) that prompt explorationcross-disciplinary and skills development.
Global/Local Engagement
Opportunities to test or interrogate your question through experience (internship, research, study away, community-based learning, etc.)
Senior ReflectionCulminating opportunity to synthesize, process and expound.
All-College Symposium
Share your findings and conclusions with the Conn (Appreciationcommunity.follows.)
Apply
Describe your project (sophomore fall).
Gateway Course
Dive into your research and meet your cohort.
Internships (exploring your question in the workplace), and/or Study Abroad (considering your topic through a different cultural lens) and Research (testing your question in the lab or field).
The point: to build an academic plan that emerges from your interests, direct your own education and log experiences that best prepare you for your future. (Solving problems while you’re at it.)
Capstone Course
Check in with your cohort for synthesis, analysis and contented sighs.
Choose from five Centers
• Ammerman Center for Arts & Technology
• Center for the Critical Study of Race and Ethnicity
• Goodwin-Niering Center for the Environment
• Holleran Center for Community Action
• Toor Cummings Center for International Studies and the Liberal Arts
You can charge harder and lean out further when someone has your back.
OUR FULLY ENDOWED OFFICE OF ACADEMIC SUPPORT serves the entire Conn community, supporting students who seek targeted assistance with a specific subject as well as those looking to elevate their overall toolkit.
The sharper your skills, the greater your impact. Wherever you stand, we’ll help you reach higher.
A non-exhaustive accounting of offerings from the Office of Academic Support:
Peer tutors help you raise your game through subjectbased tutoring and writing support at any stage of the writing process
Learning coaches work one-on-one with students on skills and strategies for quantitative reasoning, writing and communication, time management, studying, and test-taking
Faculty partnerships create open avenues for OAS staff and tutors to proactively support students in their majors, Centers and Pathways
The only rhymes we can think of are “trammel,” “mammal,” “enamel” and “Mark Hamill.”
But, truth be told, this just serves to back up our sense that camels are a rare breed, content to be their remarkable selves, even while gathered with others of their kind. That said, this does make it somewhat more difficult to write a poem about the Conn experience. But we gave it the old college try.
You know a Camel by the smile it sheds As it formulates a thorny question, Gathering fragments, connecting the threads, Fearlessly channeling thoughts into action.
Camels contemplate, ponder and wonder, Creating, conceiving, and seeking caffeine, Living with honor, bringing the thunder, Becoming the changes that they have foreseen.
The Camel greets a world of possibility Then gathers friends to form a motley herd; Many perspectives, joined in civility, Form better solutions when each voice is heard.
A Camel states a dream then sees it through From tip to tail, ’cause that’s what Camels Do.
How We Do It
Because life is a team sport. Because we have so much to learn from each other.
(Because it’s far less fun to cheer for yourself.)
Bringing tireless curiosity, a winning balance of gumption and know-how, and a habit of knocking down walls for the good of the world.
They’ll be your thinking partners, sidekicks and surrogate siblings.
Like ninjas training in the dojo, you’ll make each other better.
They’ll be your foil and counterpoint, your exponent, your magnifying glass. Like elements combining, you’ll give and gain and gradually emerge as something wholly new.
Each contributes to a dynamic array of talents, opinions, beliefs, points of view, distant dreams and secret superpowers.
You’ll learn as much from each other as you do in class.
AMONG THE BEST BELOVED ASPECTS OF CONN CULTURE IS OUR HONOR CODE, one that governs both academic and community conduct.
In brief: Students sign a pledge to be honest, ethical and civil—in our academic work and in our dealings with others. The resulting trust and mutual respect are the glue that binds this unbreakable community.
OUR OTHER GREAT TRADITION IS SHARED GOVERNANCE, which means working together to imagine and chart our path as a community.
Because Conn students are smart, self-possessed and capable, they are invited to the table as voting members of many major campus committees—including those concerning budgets, curriculum and campus improvements.
Student ownership makes a real difference in how our college is run. And it leads to the development of individual agency and personal responsibility.
You’ll leave here confident that your voice matters and that you are capable of making an impact—because you will have already.
“We will never, by any selfish or other unworthy act, dishonor this our College; individually and collectively we will foster her ideals and do our utmost to instill a respect in those among us who fail in their responsibility; unceasingly we will strive to quicken a general realization of our common duty and obligation to our College. And thus in manifold service we will render our Alma Mater greater, worthier, and more beautiful.”
LIKE MOST COLLEGES, WE HAVE A LONG AND VARIED ROSTER OF STUDENT-RUN CLUBS AND ACTIVITIES to fuel and sate and amplify the sprawling range of interests, causes and curiosities of our campus community.
What’s different here is the volume of applause.
Do what you do. (Perform, promote, compete, invent, expound, etc.)
People will show up.
The result is a domino effect of enthusiasm and support that propels you to greater heights and amplifies your impact.
And that makes life much more fun.
and do.
TO CREATE IS TO DEFY, UPEND, DISLODGE OR SURPRISE.
To thwart inertia.
To shed light on the previously impossible.
Whether or not you ever take an art class or step on stage, your fellow Camels (professors and peers) will challenge you to develop a creative mindset.
You’ll connect and recombine existing elements. You’ll subject your assumptions to new sets of conditions.
You’re here (at Conn and in the world) to make an impact. YOUR CREATIVE CONTRIBUTIONS ARE EVERY BIT AS UNIQUE AS YOUR FINGERPRINTS.
Let them be heard.
here you’ll find the space, resources and fellow makers you need to create your masterpiece and get it out into the world.
Theater: playwriting, dramaturgy and dramatic literature; perform in or help mount the many productions staged each year in one of several campus performance spaces; intern with New York or regional theaters; study theater abroad; learn from visiting artists.
Dance: Encounter and perform modern, Afro-Caribbean, West African, improvisation and ballet in a program shaped by 30 years of hosting the American Dance Festival; contribute to (at least) six dance productions each year; intern with a dance company; study dance abroad; collaborate with our
theory, composition and musicology from world-class musicians; take private lessons; perform in a wide variety of ensembles; study abroad; record in state-of-the-art studios.
Fine Art: Explore and experiment with ceramics, graphic design, mixed media, painting, photography, printmaking and sculpture with devoted faculty and practicing artists; as a senior, have 24-7 access to a personal studio for your thesis project; collaborate with faculty; learn from prominent global artists-in-residence.
HERE’S THE THING: You’re never going to catch us on an off day.
When we take the field, we go all in. Fighting and tireless. United and savvy. Adaptive and highly intelligent.
Proud members of the NESCAC conference and fielding 28 varsity teams in NCAA’s Division III, our legacy is written in the storied accomplishments of our All-Americans, individual national champions, Olympic medalists and championship-caliber teams.
When we play, we play to win.
When we represent the Camels, we take it personally.
To ensure you’re NEVER MORE THAN A MODEST SPRINT FROM YOUR NEXT CUP OF COFFEE, we offer four cafés, each with its own offerings, atmosphere and resident Camels.
Oasis
Centrally located and abundantly provisioned with sandwiches, ice cream and salads (all of which pair well with coffee).
The Blue Camel Café Library-based, with soups, baked goods and (wait for it ...) coffee; open 24-7 as a study space.
Coffee Grounds Comfy couches, many windows, an unending torrent of caffeinated bliss.
The Coffee Closet at Ruane’s Den Why waste words when we had you at “coffee”?
Our revitalized waterfront features a first-rate facility for the sailing and rowing programs; an outdoor classroom and living laboratory for marine science, environmental research and conservation; and an expedition training area for Conn’s Outdoor Adventures program. Did we mention we’re the only NESCAC on the water?
The only member of NESCAC with a waterfront location, Conn is home to a 750-acre arboretum, a stunning central quad and a commanding view of Long Island Sound.
We’re minutes from I-95 (without feeling like we’re anywhere close to a highway) and an easy drive to Hartford, Providence, Boston and New York City—where many students do internships and build professional networks that lead to quick starts after Conn.
Here you’ll find the ideal residential college experience (welcoming, intimate, supportive) connected to the spinal cord of the wider world.
The middle of nowhere we are not.
(A non-exhaustive accounting of things that) Camels Do.
You’re busy, and we have only so much ink. As such, we have (so far) painted with a broad brush. But for the sufficiently intrigued and motivated, here’s some nitty-gritty.
Sampling of institutions
Conn alums have attended within five years of graduation:
Berklee College of Music
Boston College
Brown University
Columbia University
Cornell University
Duke University School of Law
Georgetown University
Harvard University
London School of Economics
New York University
Northwestern University
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Simmons College
Tufts University
University of California - Berkeley
University of Pennsylvania
University of Southern California
University of Virginia
Vanderbilt University
Wesleyan University
Yale University
A few current employers of recent Conn alumni:
AECOM
Amazon
Bain & Company
Banani International School
Booz Allen Hamilton
Buzzfeed
Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh
Circus Place
Citi
Flavorlab
GLAAD
Hubspot
ICAP
JPMorgan Chase
Lincoln School
McKinsey & Company
Morgan Stanley
Naval Nuclear Laboratory
Penguin Random House
Pfizer
PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC)
Science Club for Girls Square
STEM Women Sierra Leone
Tesla
Toast
Travelers
Twitch
United Healthcare
Vogue
Weill Cornell Medicine
Yale University School of Medicine
LEARNING INTO ACTION
Companies and organizations where students have recently interned
AMC TV
Archaeological Conservation Institute
Brigham & Women’s Hospital
Brown Brothers Harriman
Center for Strategic and International Studies
Children’s Defense Fund
Children’s Hospital of New York
China General Chamber of Commerce
Christie’s
Columbia University Medical Center
Dana Farber Cancer Institute
Delegation of the European Union to the United States
Environmental Defense Fund
Fidelity Investments
Ground Floor @ Berkeley Repertory Theater
Mt. Sinai Hospital
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
National Park Service
NBC Pfizer
Salesforce
Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
SpaceX
Time Inc.
UBS
United Nations Relief and Works Program (UNRWA)
Presentations from recent All-College Symposiums
Access and Excess: Exploring the Social and Environmental Impacts of Food Waste
An Analysis of Hydrokinetic Devices: Harnessing Energy From Moving Water
Science Fiction Art from the Perspective of Neoclassicism and Romanticism
Social Media: This Generation’s Cigarettes
How Wealth Disparities Impact Prenatal Care Around the World
Each year, there are at least 80+ student-run clubs and organizations active on campus in the following categories:
Academic and Language
Club Sports (see a sampling on the next page)
Community Service
Culture and Identity
Issue Oriented
Performing Arts
Political Publications and Media
Religious and Spiritual
Special Interest
Student Governance
For the most upto-date list of clubs, visit
Number of DIVISION III COLLEGES and UNIVERSITIES: 431
Varsity Athletic Teams:
Basketball (M/W)
Cross Country (M/W)
Field Hockey (W)
Ice Hockey (M/W)
Lacrosse (M/W)
Rowing (M/W)
Sailing (M/W)
Soccer (M/W)
Squash (M/W)
Swimming & Diving (M/W)
Tennis (M/W)
Track & Field (M/W)
Volleyball (W)
Water Polo (M/W)
SOCIAL JUSTICE INITIATIVES
Division of Retention and Success
The division provides strategy and specific actions for cultivating a campus community and learning environment in which individuals are each supported to grow and be their authentic selves.
Agnes Gund ‘60 Dialogue Project
Campuswide efforts that support the development of capacity to connect across political, social, socioeconomic and other dimensions of difference via dialogue.
Center for the Critical Study of Race and Ethnicity (CCSRE)
Conn’s hub for the study of comparative race and ethnic studies spurs exploration of such topics as immigration, globalization, indigenous histories and historical traumas.
Social Difference and Power Courses
Each Conn student takes two courses that help establish an informed understanding of systemic inequality, power structures, social identity and difference.
Number who SUFFER THE
INDIGNITY of not having a Camel for a mascot: 430 Club and Intramural Sports:
Baseball
Basketball
Dance Team
Equestrian Team
Figure Skating
Golf
Ice Hockey
Kickball
Lacrosse
Rugby
Ski Team
Soccer
Ultimate Frisbee
Volleyball
Camels Reef aquatic habitat
Covered bike racks
EV charging stations
Geothermal well field on Tempel Green
Goodwin-Niering Center for the Environment certificate program
Green roof on College Center
LEED Gold-certified New London Hall
Numerous bottle-filling stations
Outdoor public bike repair station
Residential sustainable living community
SmartFlower solar structure
Solar array on service building and Dayton Arena
Spokespeople bike rental and repair
Sprout Garden organic produce
Stars GOLD rating (Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education)
Sustainability Fellows program
Sustainable living residence
Thrifty Camel free clothing
Founded in 1911
750 acres of campus/arboretum rising above Long Island Sound and the New London seaport
Approximately 2,000 undergraduates
For specifics on the most recent incoming class, visit
https://www.conncoll.edu/ admission/apply/ admission-statistics/
9.4:1 student-to-faculty ratio
Average class size of 19
Around 180 full-time faculty members, 95% of whom hold a Ph.D. or other terminal degree
More than half our students work with professors on independent studies or honors theses
Nearly 100% of our students engage with the career office at Conn. About 90% of them report that the career program helped them find jobs.
More than 95% of our alumni are employed or pursuing advanced degrees within one year of graduation.
50% of our graduates earn advanced degrees.
Africana Studies
American Studies
Anthropology
Architectural Studies
Art
Art History
Behavioral Neuroscience
Biological Sciences
Biochemistry, Cellular and Molecular Biology
Botany
Chemistry
Classics
Computer Science
Dance
East Asian Studies
Economics
English
Environmental Studies
Film Studies
French
Gender, Sexuality and Intersectionality Studies
German Studies
Global Islamic Studies
Government
International Relations
Hispanic Studies
History
Human Development
Italian Studies
Latin American and Latino Studies
Mathematics
Music
Music and Technology
Philosophy
Psychology
Religious Studies
Slavic Studies
Sociology
Student-Designed
Interdisciplinary
Theater
Minors
Most majors, plus:
Applied Statistics
Arabic Studies
Astronomy
Cognitive Science
Finance
Geology
Jewish Studies
Linguistics
Language Studies
Arabic
American Sign Language
French
German
Greek
Hebrew
Italian
Japanese
Latin
Mandarin
Chinese
Spanish
Russian
ADMISSION
The entire aim of this book has been to help you answer this simple-butall-important question. The best college for you checks various boxes. Academic programs that will nourish your curiosities and give you the best chance to set them in motion. A community that feels comfortable but will also challenge you to grow.
There is plenty of info online, but here are a few important, high-level tidbits:
We are test-optional. Feel free to submit results if you like, but know that we see you as much more than numbers.
We accept the Common App to keep things as simple as possible. Interviews are available, but not required.
Learn more about requirements, deadlines and admission philosophy: CONNCOLL.EDU/ ADMISSION/APPLY
VISITING
Come see us for a few hours.
(Or four years.)
Our thoroughly unscientific study of current students suggests that it took them an average of 83 seconds between stepping on campus and deciding to apply. Which is to say, a visit to this place could literally change your life. Come see us, walk our acres, gaze down at the water, stand among Camels and see if you like what they have to say.
Come to campus or get to know us from the comfort of your couch!
See your options:
FINANCIAL AID
Want to figure
College is a huge investment. We get it. We are fortunate to have the resources to help those who would be the best match for this community gain access to a Conn education. The bottom line: We meet the full demonstrated need of every student we admit. Before you decide that Conn is out of reach, give us a chance to prove you wrong.
About 60% of students receive need-based aid
Around 90% of this aid consists of grants that do not have to be repaid
Our average need-based financial aid award is around $55,000
For more about Conn costs, the aid application process and financing options:
